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Dear Mr. Secretary - I have the honor to inform you that the Chinese Consul General at San Francisco has laid before me a petition in which he states that he is in receipt of a letter from Wa Cheong of Seattle, Washington Territory, who represents that in the outrage case in Squak valley, King County. The evidence which had been previously taken shows without a doubt that the Chinese laborers were attacked and shot dead in the night time while in bed, by a band of lawless residents of said locality; that now the counsel for the defence of the prisoners in the case, has altered their ground of defense

Watson Carvosso Squire, 1838-1926, was an attorney, Civil War veteran, industrialist, and governor of Washington Territory from 1884-1887. In 1885, anti-Chinese riots began occurring in Tacoma and Seattle. This trouble peaked on February 8, 1886, when Squire declared martial law. Following his tenure as Governor, Squire served in the US Senate.

Dear Mr. Secretary - I have the honor to inform you that the Chinese Consul General at San Francisco has laid before me a petition in which he states that he is in receipt of a letter from Wa Cheong of Seattle, Washington Territory, who represents that in the outrage case in Squak valley, King County. The evidence which had been previously taken shows without a doubt that the Chinese laborers were attacked and shot dead in the night time while in bed, by a band of lawless residents of said locality; that now the counsel for the defence of the prisoners in the case, has altered their ground of defense